casino
kuh-SEE-noh · noun
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Origin
Casino comes from Italian casino, a diminutive of casa, meaning "house." That word traces back to Latin casa, meaning "cottage" or "hut."
Journey
The facts here don't trace how casino traveled from a small Italian house to today's gambling halls — only that it started life as a diminutive meaning "little house."
Related words
It shares a root with casa, the Latin word for cottage or hut, which gave Italian its word for house.